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Re: customize messing up .emacs symlink?
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D. D. Brierton |
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Re: customize messing up .emacs symlink? |
Date: |
Tue, 02 Mar 2004 04:03:52 +0000 |
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Pan/0.14.2 (This is not a psychotic episode. It's a cleansing moment of clarity.) |
On Mon, 01 Mar 2004 21:00:51 -0500, Ed L Cashin wrote:
> Hi. I have a .emacs file under version control and symlinked into my
> home directory. Every once in a while, emacs replaces my symlink and
> creates a regular file.
>
> Just now I sent some usenet news and saw a message flash by:
>
> Wrote /home/ecashin/.emacs
> Sending news via news.gmane.org using nntp...
> Opening nnimap server on 127.0.0.1...
>
> The difference between the old .emacs and the impostor is shown
> below. It leads me to suspect that the customize code of the two
> emacs versions I use are competing.
Put your (two) customizations in (two) separate filesto .emacs. I don't
know which two versions of emacs you use. But assuming its Xemacs vs.
Emacs, put at the end of your .emacs something like (excuse my probably
crappy and very-unlisp-like lisp):
(if (string-match "XEmacs" emacs-version)
(load "~/.xemacs.customize.el")
(load "~/.emacs.customize.el"))
Each separate customize file will need to have a customization for
custom-file in it:
(custom-set-variables
;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom -- don't edit or cut/paste it!
;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
[...]
'(custom-file "<thisfilename>")
[...]
Presumably you don't want to keep your customizations in CVS, or do you?
Best, Darren
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Re: customize messing up .emacs symlink?, Kevin Rodgers, 2004/03/02